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Wow! Nice work. I had the exact same idea awhile back and even started on a prototype version of it. Really happy (and a bit jealous) to see it done so well. Some of the things tha…

I spoke to someone at Wolfram about using the API about 6 months ago and they said they would try and get me access to their "Pioneer Grant" which is the free version of the API. N…

Congratulations on making the move to full-time! At the beginning of last year I made a similar move from being a Japanese salaryman to my own business. I was writing code in a not…

Thanks for this. Lamson looks very powerful but it's probably overkill for what I'm looking for.

Thanks. This does look amazing. I'll try it out and post my results back here. Interested to hear what kind of things you you or others use it for. It really gets you thinking abou…

This reminds me of a problem I've been wanting to solve for a long time. A lot of web apps use email to deliver notifications and other data like reports. I want to take these emai…

I second this one but would recommend learning Javascript by using Greasemonkey and the introductory guide "Dive Into Greasemonkey" which was discussed here recently http://news.yc…

The Firefox add-ons blog just posted some results from their "Contributions Pilot" where they were testing accepting donations for add-ons. http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/10/1…

Point taken. Perhaps a more appropriate analogy is the PR industry. I know the PR industry gets almost as much criticism as SEO. But the argument that we shouldn't use specialists …

The argument that web designers, web developers etc. should understand everything related to their work is fine at a small scale eg. creating a personal blog/small website. But it'…

I was looking forward to using the API in my Firefox add-on that shows the Wolfram Alpha results next to the Google results. Quick calculation of the cost: 18,000 users/day * say 3…